Item #58421 Voyages autour du monde, et vers les deus poles, par terre et par mer. Pierre Marie Francois Pagès.
Voyages autour du monde, et vers les deus poles, par terre et par mer
Voyages autour du monde, et vers les deus poles, par terre et par mer
Voyages autour du monde, et vers les deus poles, par terre et par mer
Voyages autour du monde, et vers les deus poles, par terre et par mer

Voyages autour du monde, et vers les deus poles, par terre et par mer

Paris: chez Moutard, 1782. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. 432; 272; 10 engraved folding charts and plates; a very nice copy in contemporary and likely original full French mottled calf, gilt decorated spines in 6 compartments, red and green morocco labels in 2 (one label faded); lightly rubbed but on the whole a near fine set. Pagès "received a commission to discover a northwest passage by way of the eastern coast of Asia. He started out in 1767 by first sailing from Santo Domingo, where he had been stationed, to New Orleans, then making his way up the Mississippi and Red River, arriving at Natchitoches, where he stayed for some time. He proceeded across Texas on horseback to San Antonio and then through Mexico to Acapulco. From there he sailed to Guam and the Philippines" (Howgego). He made visits to Batavia, Java, Bombay, and Muscat. Heading home to the Mediterranean he made stops in Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, ending the voyage at Marseilles. Pagès Voyages also contains "an account of his adventures with the unsuccessful second voyage of Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Tremarec towards the South Pole in search of 'Terra Australis Incognita,' as well as his experiences on an expedition of a Dutch whaler to Spitzbergen with a detailed account of whaling and the natural history of the whale" (Howgego). The rather detailed folding charts illustrate the routes of his travels, featuring his approaches to the Arctic and Antarctic regions; the Gulf of Mexico, with his route through Texas and Louisiana; the Indian Ocean and the coast of India; the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Syria and Palestine; and Spitsbergen. The folding plate of whaling operations is pictured and described in Ingalls, Whaling Prints in the Lothrop Collection. Hill, p. 526-7; Howes P13 ('aa'); Howgego I, P7; Jenkins, p. 134; Spence 887. Item #58421

Price: $3,200.00

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